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List:       linux-arm-kernel
Subject:    Re: unsure newbie
From:       Holger Schurig <h.schurig () mn-logistik ! de>
Date:       2003-10-28 7:20:13
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Wow, you're specific:

> ... an SA-1110 ... board
> ... for this sort of a board ...

> or will i have to make some major changes to the startup source code?

The gift of mind-reading and all-knowing is not really apparent among the 
readers of the mailing list, so I guess you can't really get an answer to 
this question.

Look at linux-2.4.19-rmk7 with "make menuconfig" if you see your board. If 
not, then you will have to get your hands dirty and spend some quality 
time coding.

And even if your board is listed there, it doesn't mean that all hardware 
on your board are supported. E.g. for the Accelent IDP (both the SA1110 
and PXA ones) there aren't drivers for every piece of hardware in the 
Linux tree.

"Startup code": not sure what you mean. Maybe the bootloader?  It depends, 
if the board has a supported boot loader or not.

> (really lookin for some long term hand holding here :-)

This mailing list can usually help those people that can help themselfes. 
Read www.arm.linux.org.uk, read "Linux Device Drivers", read parts of the 
Linux source code, read Documentation/arm/*, read arm.linux.org.uk again, 
read parts of the mailing list archive, e.g. you can search for "new 
board", "porting" etc. You can look at patches to port Linux to some 
other hardware and grep the source code for 
CONFIG_ARCH_<whatever-board-you-chose-as-example> to see where changes 
might be needed.

> acc to board supplier who has kindly supplied binaries
> but no source they have used linux-2.4.5 with patch
> 2.4.5-rmk4. 

Linux is GPL. Providing binaries and no source code is a copy right 
violation towards more than 1000 Linux kernel developers. Kindly note 
your supplyier about this fact and ask again for the source code.

-- 
Try Linux 2.6 from BitKeeper for PXA2x0 CPUs at
http://www.mn-logistik.de/unsupported/linux-2.6/


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